Boost your intelligence with Junior Brain Trainer

December 5, 2008

BOOST YOUR INTELLIGENCE WITH
JUNIOR BRAIN TRAINER

NEW NINTENDO DS GAME RELEASED
TODAY TO GIVE KIDS’ GREY MATTER A FUN WORKOUT

Avanquest Software Publishing, a
leading consumer software and games publisher, has launched Junior Brain Trainer
for Nintendo DS to retail today. This is a stimulating and fun game to help
children improve a range of important cognitive skills. It includes a wide
variety of fun puzzles and quizzes set in colourful environments to promote
learning and education in an entertaining way.

Created specifically for 6-11 year
olds, Junior Brain Trainer gives young minds a fitness workout to help develop
important key skills in reading, writing, spelling, maths, geometry, logic and
problem solving. Junior Brain Trainer takes a fresh and fun approach to teaching
by delivering information in bite size chunks, making it easier to digest. The
structured gameplay is designed to suit a child’s attention span and ensures
they are continually engaged.

Users are encouraged to spend a
small amount of time on the game each day to complete five different activities
based around key skills. Players must successfully accomplish tasks such as
completing a missing word in a sentence, finishing a maths calculation, drawing
a shape or matching up pairs.

Once the five daily activities have
been completed, users are rewarded by unlocking additional content, motivating
them to continue to reveal further exercises. These include reading and writing
activities such as fun stories, where the reader has to blow into the microphone
to turn the page; Hangman, requiring a mystery word to be solved; and Alphabet,
to encourage kids to practice writing the alphabet.

Players can also unlock a quiz to
test their knowledge of mathematics and vocabulary, as well as a selection of
entertaining games that include:

Snakes - a game of skill and timing
that requires a snake to be guided around the screen to collect coloured sweets
– but if the snake hits its own tail, it’s game over!

Football – the stylus is used to
move a football boot across the screen kicking a ball against the wall to remove
bricks. Don’t miss the ball or a life is lost!

Beggar My Neighbour – tap on a pile
of playing cards with the stylus to play a move against the console. Whoever has
the highest card wins the hand - the overall winner is the player who collects
all the cards.

Balloon Pop - the D-pad is used to
move a sling shot to the left and right. The A button fires at the balloons and
pops them when on target. Balloons may fire back though!

Twins - a memory game requiring
pairs of people to be matched up against a time limit.

Ghosts - use the stylus to touch a
ghost and capture it. The ghosts are quick though and as many as possible must
be caught within the time limit.